Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most effective of university presidents with a minimum of flash. "A college president," he says, "has two choices. One is to lean toward being a public figure. I decided to throw my weight toward Princeton." Dodds has built slowly and well on foundations that he never wanted to alter. Unlike Mover Conant or Shaker Hutchins, he can sum up his career so far with a refreshingly unorthodox boast: that in its basic philosophy, Princeton "has not changed in the least in the last 20 years...
...work is also enlarging botanical knowledge. For example, he discovered that plant roots do not alter the direction of their growth to reach moisture or fertilizer, but that roots which do reach them grow faster and larger. But Ott does not take contracts from everyone. He turned down a movie to promote a popular soil conditioner. Reason: his films showed that plants grew better and faster without the conditioner than with...
Perhaps the most startling innovation, and one which doubled Engine Charlie's value as an executive, was his introduction of a faithful, trusted alter ego. This was Deputy Secretary Roger Kyes, a hard-featured giant brought along from General Motors, where Wilson had originally hired him to get G.M.'s truck division out of the red. Wilson was boss and Kyes understood the boss. In the Pentagon, Wilson gave Kyes a free hand and Kyes, making no effort to build a personal empire, devoted his great competence to making Charlie Wilson a successful Secretary of Defense. Pentagonians were...
...seems that Griswold has finally made his decision to join Harvard in a football policy which has for so many years been advocated by Provost Buck. Griswold's alter ego Hall, who represented the N.C.A.A. position, is gone, and the prospect of an enlightened Ivy League seems a lot brighter. Harvard's decision yesterday not to sign the N.C.A.A. television agreement is another important move toward a practical football policy. One cannot de-emphasize football, and at the same time play it for revenue. The N.C.A.A. agreement was merely a business move which kept the necessary big time football apparatus...
...After all," asked Oscar Wilde more than a half-century ago, "what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months...